AJ McLean’s Daughter Elliott Celebrates Birthday After Title Change

Turning double digits! Backstreet Boys’ AJ McLean and spouse Rochelle McLean celebrated daughter Elliot’s tenth birthday — her first since altering her identify earlier this yr.

“MY GIRL is 10 right now! 🎉🎂🎁,” Rochelle, 41, wrote through Instagram on Monday, November 28, alongside a candy snap of Elliott in a Britney Spears tee. “I’m going to smother her in love, hugs and kisses right now! So pleased with the little girl she’s rising into♥️ Without end grateful the creator selected me to be her momma 🙏🏻 I really like you child lady 🥰. Blissful Birthday @elliott_jaymes1127.”

The make-up artist, who additionally shares 5-year-old daughter Lyric with the 44-year-old musician, revealed that her preteen had determined to make a reputation change in August after realizing she most well-liked a moniker that felt distinctive solely to her.

“For these asking… not that it’s anybody’s enterprise however Elliot’s identify change isn’t a gender factor,” Rochelle wrote through her Instagram Story on the time, noting that Elliot has modified her “just a few instances” all through her life.

“Final yr she requested us to begin calling her Elliot and it caught. She wished one thing distinctive that nobody else had. (There are such a lot of Ava’s.) I didn’t actually see the hurt in respecting her want to be distinctive,” the Arizona native added.

Rochelle went on to clarify that it’s a “little odd” that folks get to “select names for individuals we haven’t even met but and anticipate them to perpetually [identify] as that particular person.”

AJ, for his half, opened up concerning the identify change throughout a September look on As we speak. The singer admitted he was “greatly surprised” by his little one’s request at first, not understanding whether or not it was a “transgender factor.”

“It isn’t, however it’s a private selection,” he mentioned, including that whereas she’s going to “all the time be Ava” to him, each he and Rochelle respect their daughter’s decisions. “No matter reasoning it’s, that’s hers, and I’m going to help it one million p.c. My spouse will [too].”

The “I Need It That Means” artist, who tied the knot with Rochelle in 2011, solely opened as much as Us Weekly about his love of fatherhood in July.

“Clearly, daughters look as much as their dad and it’s such a very good feeling. Truthfully, I really like to come back residence and to see them and to see their expressions on their face at any time when I come again residence,” he gushed. “To have the ability to go on daddy and daughter dates and get our nails completed and do all that type of stuff, to me, is simply superior and there’s nothing higher for me than having ladies. I don’t suppose I’d know what to do if I had boys to be sincere with you.”

Nonetheless, the Florida native additionally revealed that he wasn’t planning on increasing his household anytime quickly. “Nope, I’m completed. My spouse’s completed. Even numbers [are] good for me and her. Two is an efficient quantity, and there’s already a four-year hole between the 2 of them, so I feel we’re good,” he quipped.